“Ok guys, I have some news. I’m moving back to France at the end of the year. – What about us? What about Fablab Saigon? – Well you know what? YOU are Fablab Saigon. So it’s up to you!” This is the conversation I had with the Fablab Saigon team last September. And in October, Fablab Read more about New director, new direction[…]

It has been 2 years and a half since our Fablab Saigon established. It’s not long enough to validate the success, but it’s not too short for us to feel fulfilled when we look back the past time. We write this post to review the whole journey we have been through. There was bad and good time, Read more about Fablab Saigon – a quick review on our achievement[…]

We all love the star, the Fablab Saigon star. In the brief for the design of the original Fablab Saigon logo, we wanted something that would tell about Vietnam yet follow the principles of the original Fablab logo, with the 3 red, green and blue colors and “building” pieces. That’s how Arnaud came up with Read more about Fablab Saigon’s new logo, the raise of a new star[…]

The last 12 months at Fablab Saigon have been quite intense, from the opening of the cafe and co-working space in Septembre 2015 to the maker hackathons like TOM and SEA Makerthon in June 2016, and most recently the Mobile Fablab Vietnam project. We’ve been communicating on those achievements. But one big and much less Read more about Overcoming co-founders conflict[…]

HCMC, June 27th, 2016 – Fablab Saigon and the South East Asia Makerspace Network (SEAMNET) have successfully organized the first Makerthon on Circular Economy in Vietnam on Sunday 26th June 2016. CFVG, Centre de Formation Franco-Vietnamien a la Gestion, hosted the event in HCMC. At the opening ceremony, Ms. Anais Kit, French Representative at CFVG, Read more about SEA Makerthon HCMC 2016 – Another successful maker hackathon![…]

In March 2016, we held the first 48h Maker to Entrepreneur Boot Camp, and we are very happy to share this article by Jenny and Tom, two 8th grade participants from the Canadian International School. The article was published in the April issue of their School’s monthly magazine in both English and Vietnamese. “48 giờ từ nhà Read more about 8th grade students on the 48h Maker to Entrepreneur Bootcamp[…]

The idea of the mobile fablab has been in our minds almost from the beginning of Fablab Saigon. Packing our tools on a truck, driving through Vietnam, showing people how digital fabrication can help them solve local problems. The very heart of the mission of Fablab. No fablab wouldn’t dream about it! “Give ordinary people Read more about Mobile Fablab – Where should we go?[…]